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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 65702

CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack)
and
USS Monitor (1862)

Line engraving, published in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", circa 1862.
Its depiction of Virginia (labeled "Merrimac") is quite inaccurate, with grossly oversized broadside gunports.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 138KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 

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22 March 2001